Prepositions Illustrated
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Prepositions Illustrated
- 1. Sample Handmade Responses to Hale’s Sin and Syntax, Chapter 6, Prepositions with corresponding citations from the chapter Angelo State University English 4361: English Grammar Dr. Laurence Musgrove Department of English and Modern Languages January 31, 2013 www.theillustratedprofessor.com @lemusgro
- 2. “The most frequent prepositional sin is to replace one good, terse word with a stack of prepositional phrases… Anytime you can replace a cluster of words with one elegant one, do it” (104).
- 3. “Have you ever counted the number of ways windy writers and speakers avoid the direct verb now?” (104).
- 4. “To test whether a word is a preposition, try putting it in front of the words ‘the log’” (99).
- 5. “The most common prepositional error is forgetting that the noun in a prepositional phrase is the object of the preposition” (109).
- 6. “Some prepositional phrases are more dungeons than closets; trapped within are much worthier verbs, yearning to burst out” (106).
- 7. “Scour your writing for prepositional barnacles worthy only of being scraped away, and replace them with simpler words…” (105).
- 8. “Anytime you can replace a cluster of words with one elegant one, do it” (104).
- 9. “What’s with that headline…..rewrite the thing….which is possible with an active verb and fewer prepositional phrases” (108).
- 10. “The most frequent prepositional sin is to replace one good, terse word with a stack of prepositional phrases” (104).
- 11. “If you were to compare crafting prose to building a house, the nouns (and pronouns), verbs, adjectives, and adverbs would form the foundation...prepositions might be analogous to closet doors” (98). “Clear the clutter” (104).
- 12. “Prepositions often convey spatial relationships, telling us where X is in relation to Y” (99).
- 13. “Prepositions create mischief…prepositions are indispensable” (101).
- 14. “Ideas expressed through prepositional phrases must be carefully crafted into parallel pieces” (102). “Those two prepositional phrases are nice and symmetrical, adding rhythmic value to the sentence” (102).